The bassoon is a complex musical instrument. It’s a horn with six parts called bocal, boot, bell, bore, joint and reed. Bassoon history goes back earlier than the mid-16th century but it’s being ...

From the careful preparation of her reeds to long rehearsals, bassoonist Eleni Katz shares a glimpse of her musical journey. Born to a family of artists ...

Judith LeClair performs with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo Provided) PARKERSBURG — A musical instrument once owned by a young Parkersburg musician whose life was ...

Music, education, family and Chinese heritage are passions of Principal Bassoon Fei Xie. Fei Xie has been the Minnesota Orchestra's principal bassoon since 2017. When he won the principal role with ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. This section of the orchestra got its name from the fact that many of its ...

The local electric bassoon ensemble — perhaps the world's only electric bassoon ensemble — began as a joke. Matt Gutwein mused about his teenage hobby of playing bassoon, the double-reed woodwind ...